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... explore the hidden side of ... well, everything. The inner workings of a crack gang. The truth about real-estate agents. The myths of campaign finance. The telltale marks of a cheating schoolteacher. The secrets of the Ku Klux Klan.

A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie LaveauCarolyn Morrow LongGainesville : University Press of Florida, 2007BL2490 .L66 2007

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... thirty original pieces by America's most notable women writers. This pointillistic portrait paints a composite picture of Hillary Clinton, focusing on details from the personal to the political, from the hard-hitting to the whimsical, to give a well-balanced and unbiased view

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